Cayman Islands Forensic Lab is most accredited facility in the Caribbean
The Cayman Islands Health Services Authority (HSA) held an event at Grand Old House to officially celebrate its latest achievement – accreditation of the Pathology Laboratory by the Joint Commission International (JCI), the leading international healthcare accrediting body. The accreditation…
The Editor Speaks: I am a dead man said a caller
No it was not from someone who didn’t like my Editorials. I was one of the increasing number of persons who have had a call from Windows Support out of Dallas Texas. On Friday at 6pm my phone rang and…
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Cayman Islands ESRF Grant application period opens for 2015
The Estella Scott-Roberts Foundation (ESRF) will be accepting applications for its grant programme beginning 1 April 2015 and closing on 22 May 2015. For this, its second grant cycle, ERSF is encouraging charities, community organisations and other not-for-profit groups to…
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Mold closes Cayman Islands Children/Family District Office DCFS West Bay Office Closes The West Bay office of the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) was closed yesterday (19 March, 2015) due to concerns about mold in the building and,…
Cayman Islands Chief Justice to speak at INSOL Judicial Colloquium
Chief Justice Anthony Smellie is scheduled to speak at a multinational judicial colloquium on cross-border insolvency in San Francisco on Sunday (22 March). The head of Cayman’s judiciary will be addressing the Eleventh Joint Multinational Judicial Colloquium on Cross-Border Insolvency,…
Cayman Islands: Mergers & Acquisitions 2015
From ICLG to Mergers & Acquisitions 2015 By Nick Evans Suzanne Correy Maples and Calder 1 Relevant Authorities and Legislation 1.1 What regulates M&A? The primary sources of regulation of M&A in the Cayman Islands are the Companies Law (2013…
Cayman Islands retailer fined for failing to pay Health Insurance fees
On 10 March 2015, the Summary Court fined local retailer Marcelo Franca CI$8,500.00 for failing to pay health insurance fees, for one of his employees in 2011, and his dependents in 2012. Following a court hearing Acting Magistrate Angelyn Hernandez…
All that is so ‘cool’ about Caribbean cricket is really uncool
By Sriram Veera From Indian Express It’s us, the almost-forty and above generation that is to be blamed for this miserable mediocrity of West Indies cricket. It’s us — and the ‘us’ refers to people outside the Caribbean — who…
Times are changing for Cayman as hedge funds start physical operations on the Island – roundtable
From Opalesque Since 2009, I have been six times to George Town to produce the Opalesque Cayman Islands Roundtable. For the first time we were able to include this year a hedge fund manager who actually operates and set up…
Cayman AEOI Portal almost open [ or open] -UPDATED
By Ian Gobin and Matthew Taber From Appleby The Cayman Islands Tax Information Authority (TIA) released its User Guide for the Cayman Islands Automatic Exchange of Information Portal (Portal) on 18 March 2015. Although there have been some press reports…
